The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-12
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

MRS. CLEVELAND is making collection of
New England moses and ferns for the adorn-
menr of the White House library after her re-
turn.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY admits that the time has
come when almost anything in the shape of a
man can get married without fooling away more
than two weeks time.
INGERsoLL reads Macaulay so thoroughly
that with little variation, he could talk off
about five pages of the essay on Pitt the other
day as he talked with fellow-traveler
NEW lecturer has como to us-Charles Will
Jams, the famous war correspondent of the Lon
dor Chronicle. He will discourse upon and IL
lustrate. sScenes from Six Campaigns"
AFTER occupying the fine old homestead at
Waltham. Mass, thirty-three years. Gen. N. P.
Banks has just discovered a flaw in the title
and has applied to the courts to remove it.
OUT in Nebraska man invented a new fly
trap-a blanket saturated with coal oil-which
he hung up in his house and burned after it was
full of flies. Now he's trying to find his house.
EDITH NJ. THOMAS. the Ohio poetess, has
another volume of sonnets almost ready for the
printer. Since the death Of Helen Hunt Jack
son. Edith Thomas is called the woman Poet
of Nature"
A Mr.. GUNTHER of Chicago. owns the table
on which Grant and Lee signed the terms of
surrender at Appomattox. He paid $1,000 for
it. letter from General Grant establishes its
authenticity
SENATOR KENNA is the latest victim of the
amateur photography craze He is at the Green
brier White Sulphur Springs of West Virginia.
and has succeeded in taking views of about half
the cottages In that vicinity.
JOHN G. WHITTIER, who was at Senter House,
Lake Winnepesaukee at the time it was burned,
few days ago, withstood the excitement and
shock of the fire very we'll for man in feeble
health and eighty years OF age
YoUNGsTER sat watching his mother while
she .'pittedn cherries. She inadvertently passed
one without removing the stone Hopeful i'm
mediately picked it out, with the remark,
Here's one you didn't unbutton mamma"
GILBERT BALL is a prominent negro politician
of Philadelphia He recently entered restau-
rant at Atlantic City. kept by a man much
blacker than is Mr. Ball Ball ordered sirlon
steak. You can't get it here" said the dusky
proprietor; 1--WE serve only white people" Mr..
Ball left the place in a rage, sought lawyer and
will bring suit against the proprietor.
THERE is a well-founded suspicion that John
L. Sulivaa obtained the speech he delivered at
Boston out of the "Complete Letter writer"
He ended his grafton as follows "As you all
know, / am orator. and am transgress-
ing on your time will close my remarks
with thanks to you all, and remain, as ever,
yours most sincerely. John L. Sullivan"
THE will of the late Gen. W. Mckee Dunn
filed at Washington this week, in the fol-
lowing words: believing that my beloved
wife. Elizabeth l. Dunn, will faithfully perform
all the duties of an affectionate mother of our
children, give and devise all my estate, both
real and personal. to my wife, and appoint this
my last will and testament" 1t is dated June
r. 1854, and is resubscribed Aug. 20. 1874.
IT is curious fact that the name of Daniel
Webster appears upon none of the rolls Of the
counselors of the Supreme Court, nor is there
anywhere a record OF his admission to the bar of
that court. 1t is probable that he already
distinguished as a lawyer when he argued his
g. 49, -, %Iot,
thought of it it taken for granted that he
had taken the oath and signed the roll, and
one raised the question
A STORY is told of retort given by President
Arthur to an Indiana man. who in trying to say
something agreeable had managed to say some
thing quite the contrary. 1t was toward the end
of the presidential term. The Hoosier had
called at the White House and was about to de-
part II presume you are getting ready to step
down and out, said he TO the President ''Out
but not down." was General Arthur's quiet
sponse up to the people"
THEi Russian comic songs. says Archibald
Forbes. are full of 'snap" and nerve. and they
always have a rafting chorus in which every
within hearing joins, while the singer
companies the strains of lis chorus with ludi-
crously fantastic breakdown in which he seems
to dislocars every bone in his body. The plant
I've melodies vbrate a strange pathos that swells
the heart of the listener even although he may
understand nothing of the words.
THE Sons Of the Revolution, an organization
of descendants of the officers and soldiers of the
revolutionary army, have opened a competition
for models for monument to the memory of
Nathan Hale. the American volunteer who was
hanged as a shy by the British in New York
during the revolution. The monument is to cost
about $25. 900, and is to be erected. with the
consent of the city authorities, in Central Park.
New York.
AN Albany newspaper says that there
families in that town who have got the art of
keeping up appearances reduced to a science.
When they want to make their neighbors think
that they have gone into the country they are not
content with the old plan of shutting the front
blinds and living in the back of the house. They
leave their newspapers on the front piazza ap-
parently neglected; but they take them in at
night and read them, at the same time supply
ing the piazza with old papers for the next
days masquerade.
GENERAL. MILES we'll deserves the sword to
be presented to him by the citizens of Arizona
Territory on the anniversary of the surrender
of Geronimo. He is to-day the most popular
man in Arizona, and justly So The difficulties
which confronted him when he undertook the
task of freeing that Territory of hostile Apaches
will never be understood outside of the district
most interested in the result. His success has
endeared him to the people of Arizona. who for
the first time in years, are free from appre-
hension of Indian outbreaks.
A LETTER from England says: "Hawarden
Castle pronounced Hardon) is just visible you
pass from rare old Chester to North Wales
alongside the sands o Des.' 1t is of very mod
crate size, many country house twice i'm
posing, and it is mainly modern. The old castle
saw any amount Of savage fighting between the
English and the warlike Welshmen The prop
ertv used to belong to the Tory Stanleys, the
Earls OF Derby. but on the seventh Earl being
beheaded for treason Hawarden dismantled,
and the estate was bought by Sergeant Glyn or
Glynne, Cromwells Lord Oh ief- Justice. 1t
came into present ownership through Mrs. Glad
stone, who is a Glynne. It is not generally
known that Mr.. Gladstone is Tot the owner of
Hswarden. The properly belongs to his Oldest
son, William Henry, who is lord of the manor
l. e. landlord. Strictly speaking the ex-Premier
is only guest on sufferance"
COMMENT AND OPINION